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1. HISTORY OF
NATUROPATHY

2. HIPPOCRATES

3. • Hippocrates is perhaps history's most
famous physician.
• By rejecting superstition in favor of
scientific observation, by classifying
diseases, and by creating a set of moral
and professional standards for physicians,
he earned the title of 'Father of Medicine.'
The Father of Modern Medicine

4. PERSONAL LIFE
 Hippocrates lived between 430 and 370
B.C.
 He was born on the island of Cos,
Greece.
 He had been taught medicine by his
father Heracleides as well as by the most
famous teachers of that time.

5.  Hippocrates made his career as a house-
to-house physician.
 He had founded the Coyan Medical
School that later on competed with the
Knidean Medical School.
 For a long time he practiced in Thrace and
died in old age in Larissa in Thessaly.

6. HIS WORK
 Hippocrates wrote some seventy books
which is widely known as the Hippocratic
Corpus.
 During his era medicine became a science
and the profession had to be underpinned
with logic and theory.
 The human body was thought to consist of
four humors - yellow bile, blood, phlegm,
and black bile.
 They were characterized by the same
properties - dry, hot, wet and cold as the
four elements - fire, air, water, and earth.

7.  One generalized and of course incorrect
theory was that disease was due to an
imbalance of the fluid portions of the body.
 Hippocrates studied physiology, anatomy
and evident, immediate and obscure
causes of disease.
 He observed his patients and made his
conclusions by constantly understanding
the symptom changes and made a note of
them

8. Of his many writings two of the best were
 Airs, Waters and Places - which is a
description of the influence of the
environment on health and disease.
 Regimen – which explains the importance
of exercise, hygiene and elimination

9. • He also gave the world the Hippocratic
Oath, a code of ethics for physicians which
is still taken by graduates at many modern
medical schools.